EVER since Rishi Sunak stood in the rain and effectively announced he’d soon be moving house, Labour have been saying the...
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23 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![House price growth remains at 14-month high](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/Property-Value_400x310.png)
Annual house price growth remained at 2.7% ahead of the general election in June and was up just 0.5% on a...
15 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tax Break: new call for stamp duty help to free-up larger homes](/upload/images/shutterstock_1926931358.jpg)
A building society is calling for stamp duty reforms to incentivise downsizing. A statement from the Suffolk Building Society says it believes...
06 August 2024
From: Breaking News
![Property Natter: The first cut is the deepest… for all of us](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Special%20Logo's/Property%20Natter.jpg)
At last! Well, they say small is beautiful and, if you’re in the property sector right now, you’d better believe it! The...
03 August 2024
From: Features
![PropTech isn't all that it's cracked up to be](/upload/images/3%20--%20PropTech%20isn't%20all%20that%20it's%20cracked%20up%20to%20be.jpg)
“The housing crisis will be solved using technology.” Or so I read somewhere this week. This notion that technology is the panacea...
27 July 2024
From: Features
![Can the Labour Government get Britain building again?](/upload/images/4%20--%20Can%20the%20labour%20government%20get%20Britain%20building%20again.jpg)
Mandatory housing targets are back, alongside a pledge to build 1.5 million homes in the next five years. But can Prime...
27 July 2024
From: Features
![Election result has placed the market under starter's orders](/upload/images/shutterstock_1850685934.jpg)
Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...
17 July 2024
From: Features
![Industry Views - Three Things Starmer May Have Forgotten About Housing](/upload/images/1%20--%20Proofed%20--%20EAT%20-%20IndustryViews%20-%20Purplebricks%20is%20right.png)
Like a breath of fresh air, we now have a government that actually appears to be governing. OK, it’s only 10 days...
13 July 2024
From: Features
![Election result has placed the market under starter's orders](/upload/images/23%2008%2024%202%20shutterstock_1718282725.jpg)
Just a week after Labour’s landslide election victory and already their top team is coming under scrutiny and being asked to...
13 July 2024
From: Features
![Election '24 - Industry leaders call for landlord support](/upload/images/Election%20housing%20.jpg)
Heidi Shackell, chief executive officer at The Lettings Hub said: “The General Election, called in May, halted progress of the Renters'...
06 July 2024
From: Features
![Addressing the Local Authority Development Impasse](/upload/images/6%20--%20PROOFED%20--%20Addressing%20the%20Local%20Authority%20Development%20Impasse%20By%20Adelle%20Okei%2C%20Surveyor%2C%20Carter%20Jonas%20(Birmingham).jpg)
Building and development plans Recently, Carter Jonas has marketed development sites which have attracted multiple bids, higher offers than had been anticipated...
15 June 2024
From: Features
![Property Natter - Mistakes, milkshakes and military memories - what a week!](/upload/images/1%20--%20Proofed%20--%20Mistakes%20milkshakes%20and%20military%20memories%20-%20Natter.jpg)
In a week when the election campaign descended into claim and counterclaim of lies over tax plans and Nigel Farage was...
08 June 2024
From: Features
![Guarded support for Labour's 'grey belt' plans](/upload/images/5%20--%20Proofed%20--%20Weekend%20features%20-%20guarded%20support%20for%20Labours%20grey%20belt%20by%20EAT%20Team.png)
Keir Starmer set out Labour’s policy for housebuilding this week and targeted ‘ugly’ parts of the Green Belt. It will be a...
20 April 2024
From: Features
![Jonathan Rolande: How I would rescue the buy-to-let sector](/upload/images/shutterstock_1641632506.jpg)
Every year the media writes a lot about house price crashes, and often pose the question whether this is the year...
23 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![JONATHAN ROLANDE: Fall in new home registrations is creating crisis for the sector](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/DemandDown-400x310.jpg)
With the exception of lockdown, new home registrations have bumped along consistently for the last 15 years. But things are changing...
09 February 2024
From: Breaking News
![Tim Foreman, Managing Director of Land and New Homes, Leaders Romans Group (LRG):](/upload/images/3%20--%20Proofed%20--%20weekend%20feature%20-%20New%20Homes%20-%20we%20need%20more%20in%2024%20by%20Tim%20Foreman.jpg)
New homes – we need more in ‘24 2023 was a year which saw the 'need to moves' active in the housing...
23 December 2023
From: Features
![Would new Permitted Development Rights mean more houses?](/upload/images/4%20Would%20new%20Permitted%20Development%20Rights%20mean%20more%20homes%20by%20James%20Doherty%20(1).jpg)
The Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities (DLUHC) was this week due to conclude its consultation on proposed changes to...
30 September 2023
From: Features
![Party Time - housing policies from Labour, Tories and the rest](/upload/images/__thumbs/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood.jpg/1%20IndustryViews%20political%20parties%20to%20spell%20out%20housing%20policy%20plans%20at%20conferences%20by%20Graham%20Norwood__400x231.jpg)
And suddenly it’s autumn. It’s just six weeks before the clocks change, days are getting shorter and - the real sign...
09 September 2023
From: Features
![What is ‘mixed tenure’ and why are mixed tenure developments built?](/upload/images/adv-2021/sponsored-content/Sava/EAT%20image%20(5).png)
The term mixed-tenure development usually refers to residential developments where different residential tenures are provided on the same site. Typically, tenure was...
30 August 2023
From: Sponsored Content
![Can public private partnerships help address the shortage of rental homes?](/upload/images/4%20RentOnlineSearch-400x310.png)
A recent poll of 11,000 private renters by SpareRooom reveals that 81% spend more than 30% of their take-home pay on...
22 July 2023
From: Features
![No evidence that scrapping housing targets will boost housebuilding, MPs warn](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Developments/Construction-400x310.png)
MPs have cast doubt on the Government’s ability to achieve its target of 300,000 new homes per year by the mid-2020s...
14 July 2023
From: Breaking News
![Slowdown in housebuilding will lead to chronic lack of supply, warns RSM UK](/upload/images/3%20Builders-400x310.png)
The UK is heading for a further drop in housebuilding, according to the latest Purchasing Managers Index data by S&P and...
08 July 2023
From: Features
![Labour to use Compulsory Purchase Orders to buy cheaper land](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/PropertyFinancing-400x310.png)
Labour says it will reform how land is valued under Compulsory Purchase Order powers in a bid to increase house building...
31 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![Jonathan Rolande: Are bungalows the answer to the housing crisis?](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/A%20surveyor's%20guide%20to%20finding%20a%20profitable%20HMO.jpg)
It has been another busy week in the property sector. In his latest column, property commentator Jonathan Rolande, provides his take on...
19 May 2023
From: Breaking News
![2023 - this is what’s going to happen](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Seasonal%20Photos/HappyNY-400x310.png)
Is it really just a year ago that we were nervously wondering whether yet another Christmas would be Covid-affected? Little did we...
10 December 2022
From: Features
![Government set to miss affordable housing targets - warning](/upload/images/Shutterstock-only%20images/Property%20Market/NewBuild-2-400x310.png)
The Government has been urged to revise its plans for affordable housing as MPs warn it is set to fall short...
07 December 2022
From: Breaking News
![Housing Under Rishi - don’t expect much (but be grateful for that)](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Rishi%20Sunak%2003_400x310.png)
And…breathe. For a while back there, the only certainty for the housing market was uncertainty. That isn’t to say the election of Rishi...
29 October 2022
From: Features
![If You Think Truss Is Bad, Look At The System...](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/Parliament-Night-400x310.jpg)
How did the housing market transform from incredibly strong - almost too strong - early in the year, to a situation...
15 October 2022
From: Features
![Poor Liz and Kwasi. What Do They Do Now?](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/LizTruss01-400x310.png)
Who would be in the shoes of Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng? I don’t mean who would like their power, pay and...
01 October 2022
From: Features
![Tax expert proposes stamp duty holiday for developers to boost housing supply](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/TaxCut-400x310.png)
New Prime Minister Liz Truss has been urged to consider a tax overhaul to boost property supply. There have been plenty of...
15 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![Agents highlight property priorities for the new Prime Minister](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/LizTruss-400x310.png)
From housebuilding to planning laws and stamp duty reform, agents and property professionals were ready with plenty of suggestions for Liz...
06 September 2022
From: Breaking News
![What do we do about a problem like Airbnb?](/upload/images/Logos/airbnb-logo400x310.png)
Some people will say: What problem? But they are getting fewer as the detrimental effect of increasing numbers of short lets on...
03 September 2022
From: Features
![Dear New Prime Minister - here's your housing to-do list](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/SunakvsTruss02_400x310.png)
We are only a fortnight away from having a new Prime Minister, following a contest in which housing has played a...
20 August 2022
From: Features
![Rishi-Tweedle-Dum and Liz-Tweedle-DumDum](/img/default/eat.png)
When it comes to housing policy, the Conservative MPs have given their party a choice between Tweedle Dum and Tweedle DumDum. Rishi...
23 July 2022
From: Features
![Property Jobs Today - the movers, shakers and people in the news](/upload/images/Site%20logos/PropertyJobsToday-400x310.png)
House price growth may be slowing but there is still plenty of movement in the property jobs market. Here are some of...
31 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![MPs call for carbon targets on housebuilding](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/UKHousebuilding-400x310.jpg)
MPs have called for carbon emissions to be considered when it comes to house building. A report released this week by the Environmental Audit...
27 May 2022
From: Breaking News
![Industry Views - Michael Gove and His Dead Cat](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/MichaelGove-400x310.jpg)
In retrospect, it was perhaps inevitable that the infamous dead cat would come into the debate over government housing targets and...
21 May 2022
From: Features
![Supply shortage to go on as planning stifles house building goals](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/NewHomes-400x310.png)
Planning delays, labour shortages and the surging price of building materials are combining to sharply cut the number of new homes...
05 January 2022
From: Breaking News
![Is it time to reform the tax we all love to hate?](/upload/images/library/StampDuty1-400x310.jpg)
As we slide into Christmas, with the busiest levels of house buying since 2006 and activity still buoyant, I don’t think...
22 December 2021
From: Features
![How my predictions on agency and PropTech from recent years have come true](/upload/images/Housing%20Market%20%26%20Property%20Images/HouseSearch-400x310-min.jpg)
The last 18 months have been full of ups and downs, but the property market has coped remarkably well during the...
04 December 2021
From: Features
![Propertymark blasts government as house building figures plummet](/upload/images/Politics%20(MPs%2C%20party%20logos%2C%20etc)/BorisJohnson-4-400x310.jpg)
Propertymark has criticised the government over poor house building figures. New figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities show...
01 December 2021
From: Breaking News
![Lies, Damned Lies, and House Building Targets](/upload/images/BTR%2C%20PBSA%2C%20Co-living/build-to-rent400x310.png)
We’ve probably all learned to be a little less cynical about politicians in recent weeks, given the tragic events. We perhaps...
30 October 2021
From: Features
![Rent Controls - It’s Back To The Future](/upload/images/Rental%20Market/RentalMarketImage-1-400x310.jpg)
Few political policies have such a ring of the past as rent controls - they were last seen in this country...
04 September 2021
From: Features
![The Holiday Home Debate - Don’t Let Politicians Get Away With It](/img/default/eat.png)
At first sight it’s a tough ask to defend holiday homes when there’s evidence that many who want to buy can’t,...
10 July 2021
From: Features
![Are New Builds good enough? Formal consultation begins](/img/default/eat.png)
A consultation into the draft New Homes Quality Code has been published with a consultation period for the industry ending on...
22 June 2021
From: Breaking News
![Vote, Vote, Vote - Housing and the 2021 Local Elections](/img/default/eat.png)
Local elections rarely set the pulse racing and this year’s poll on Thursday faces a similar problem. But this time, it’s a...
01 May 2021
From: Features
![Prince Philip: how the property landscape changed during his century](/img/default/eat.png)
For many, the funeral of HRH Prince Philip will be a solemn affair, while for some it will also be a...
17 April 2021
From: Features
![Stamp Duty reform would speed sales says another leading Tory MP](/img/default/eat.png)
The MP leading a new parliamentary committee on the housing market says a radical reform of tax would help more people move...
06 April 2021
From: Breaking News
![New property redress initiative launched, chaired by Tory MP](/img/default/eat.png)
A new body which says it will “champion better outcomes for buyers” is described as independent but is to be chaired...
09 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Scrap stamp duty cliff edge ‘to help people stick to Covid guidelines’](/img/default/eat.png)
The government needs to step in to rescue two valuable property incentives before they expire at the end of March, a...
03 February 2021
From: Breaking News
![Winter market surge not enough to prevent new build slump](/img/default/eat.png)
Covid-19 has caused the number of new homes registered by UK house builders to fall 23 per cent in 2020. The NHBC...
29 January 2021
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty tax break MUST happen, surveyors tell government](/img/default/eat.png)
A large majority of property professionals polled by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors say a stamp duty holiday would be...
14 May 2020
From: Breaking News
![Up again: House price rises at 14-month high as Bank meets](/img/default/eat.png)
The Bank of England’s monetary policy committee meets today for its monthly decision on whether the move base rate - and...
30 January 2020
From: Breaking News
![The government’s PropTech plans have the potential to be good news for agents](/img/default/eat.png)
In the firmest sign yet that PropTech has entered the mainstream, Housing Minister Esther McVey recently launched an expert advisory council...
14 December 2019
From: Features
![Big Tory win: but agents warn over Stamp Duty and Section 21](/img/default/eat.png)
It’s a substantial Tory government for the next five years: what does this mean for estate agents, property and the market? We have...
13 December 2019
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty Reform: have the Conservatives got cold feet?](/img/default/eat.png)
Pressure is building on the Conservative party to honour its previous commitment to reform stamp duty for British buyers and sellers...
22 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Labour pledges ‘revolution’ based on revamped council housing](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour is pledging a “housing revolution” with the biggest council house building programme for decades Its manifesto being launched today will include new...
21 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Property Jobs Today - who’s moving where, when and why…](/img/default/eat.png)
Hello, we hope you had a good weekend, and welcome to Monday - as ever, Property Jobs Today time, bringing you...
11 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![PropTech to digitally transform house-buying pledges housing minister](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing Minister Esther McVey has launched an expert advisory council that the government says is “dedicated to the digital transformation of...
06 November 2019
From: Breaking News
![Top Tory says scrap stamp duty on most homes, slash it on others](/img/default/eat.png)
A former 10 Downing Street adviser says stamp duty on house sales should be scrapped or at least slashed in order...
29 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Bad news for Boris: a 9% slump in new homes registered](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures released this morning by the National House Building Council show the number of new homes registered to be built...
24 October 2019
From: Breaking News
![Housing starts and completions still below pre-recession levels](/img/default/eat.png)
A briefing note for MPs prepared from government statistics shows that housing starts and completions have increased from the lows observed...
20 August 2019
From: Breaking News
![Treat Johnson’s stamp duty promises with caution, say top agents](/img/default/eat.png)
One of the country’s most respected agents has advised the agency industry to treat Boris Johnson’s pledges with real caution. Black Brick buying...
24 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Nationwide building society goes into house-building](/img/default/eat.png)
The Nationwide building society is to go into house building. It has received planning permission to build 239 new homes for sale...
15 July 2019
From: Breaking News
![Back to the future? A home ownership crisis](/img/default/eat.png)
With this summer marking forty years since Margaret Thatcher came to power, her legacy continues to invoke both celebration and consternation...
06 July 2019
From: Features
![Labour would crash housing market warns senior industry figure](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest report commissioned by the Labour party to resolve the UK’s housing problems would crash the housing market rather than...
28 June 2019
From: Breaking News
![What would a Corbyn government mean for sales and lettings?](/img/default/eat.png)
While media attention has been on Theresa May, Brexit and the Tories, chatter in the agency industry has been about what...
25 May 2019
From: Features
![So farewell Theresa May and thanks for...well, not much](/img/default/eat.png)
No, this isn’t about Brexit. But as the saga of leaving the EU is likely to bring about the downfall of...
13 April 2019
From: Features
![Shelter and Generation Rent? Radical? Don’t make me laugh…](/img/default/eat.png)
Campaigning groups like Generation Rent and Shelter like to think they are simultaneously edgy and radical; likewise some think tanks believe...
30 March 2019
From: Features
![Agents slam “regurgitated rhetoric” in Hammond’s damp squib statement](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agents have responded cynically to the small-fry property sector announcements made by Chancellor Phillip Hammond in yesterday’s spring statement mini-Budget. Overshadowed...
14 March 2019
From: Breaking News
![Housing minister makes it clear: We must deliver in 2019](/img/default/eat.png)
The housing minister has made it clear that his government - and the property industry as a whole - must deliver...
03 January 2019
From: Breaking News
![‘Major estate agent’ accused in house builder bribery claim](/img/default/eat.png)
The Guardian is this morning reporting that “a major estate agent” has been accused of involvement in corruption with the house...
22 November 2018
From: Breaking News
![Not fake news - the truth about Britain's new homes](/img/default/eat.png)
We’ve all heard the comments - the countryside is being covered in concrete, new houses are springing up everywhere, our green...
25 September 2018
From: Breaking News
![Kit Malthouse - We’ve obviously had enough of experts](/img/default/eat.png)
It may not be a good idea for a journalist to be personal about a politician, so I write about our...
14 July 2018
From: Features
![Fast turnover of ministers has worsened housing crisis says agency chief](/img/default/eat.png)
James Brokenshire - yesterday appointed Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government - joins the rank of senior politicians...
01 May 2018
From: Breaking News
![Top agent urges existing owners to be 'more accepting' of new homes](/img/default/eat.png)
Estate agency Jackson-Stops says it has discovered precisely how many existing home owners understand the difficulties facing first time buyers in...
16 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Senior agents say wider issues must be addressed in housing debate](/img/default/eat.png)
An estate agent and former chairman of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors says the government’s latest drive to build new...
06 March 2018
From: Breaking News
![Revealed - huge drop in home ownership levels amongst the under-45s](/img/default/eat.png)
The latest release of data from the English Housing Survey reveals that the number of under-45s owning their own homes has...
26 January 2018
From: Breaking News
![PropTech Today: We all have the power to instigate change](/img/default/eat.png)
This week, news broke of the ‘first bitcoin homes’ being sold in the UK by Go Move, an estate agency in...
20 December 2017
From: Breaking News
![Scepticism at long-term benefit of Budget housing measures](/img/default/eat.png)
Housing may have taken centre stage in the Budget but most of the industry appears to remain sceptical of whether the...
23 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![Budget to reveal massive housebuilding programme ... again](/img/default/eat.png)
Another Budget, another pledge of new house building: it appears from statements made over the weekend by Chancellor Phillip Hammond that...
20 November 2017
From: Breaking News
![House building figures for last quarter are best in a decade - NHBC](/img/default/eat.png)
New figures out this morning show that house builders registered nearly 38,000 new homes in the UK during the third quarter...
26 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government to hold housing summit tomorrow as it scrambles for ideas](/img/default/eat.png)
It has been revealed that the beleaguered government of Theresa May is to hold a summit at 10 Downing Street tomorrow...
16 October 2017
From: Breaking News
![No key speech by Labour housing spokesman at party conference](/img/default/eat.png)
Labour’s shadow housing minister John Healey is reported to be one of a number of prominent front bench opposition spokespeople being...
18 September 2017
From: Breaking News
![Government says house building figures now highest since 2008](/img/default/eat.png)
The government says the number of new build homes that have started to be built has surged to the highest level...
25 August 2017
From: Breaking News
![Agency urges Tories to implement housing white paper policies](/img/default/eat.png)
A regional estate agency has urged the Government and the new housing minister to implement the policies outlined in the housing...
15 June 2017
From: Breaking News
![Home ownership has halved for young families in parts of the UK](/img/default/eat.png)
Home ownership has halved for young families across some parts of the UK according to a charity. The Resolution Foundation says its...
22 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![Tories propose house buying reforms in election manifesto](/img/default/eat.png)
The Conservatives have this morning announced a reform of the house buying process in the party’s manifesto for the June 8...
18 May 2017
From: Breaking News
![New homes: where is the supply being concentrated?](/img/default/eat.png)
Since the seventies, housing starts and completions across England and Wales have been on a downward trajectory. The long run average...
12 May 2017
From: Features
![Stamp duty reform holds the key to meaningful market change](/img/default/eat.png)
I wrote last month about how the Government, in introducing a 3% stamp duty surcharge on second homes, had scored an...
22 April 2017
From: Features
![Competition and Markets Authority to review new-build warranties](/img/default/eat.png)
The Competition and Markets Authority is to review the operation of new home structural warranties issued by the National House Building...
22 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![Stamp Duty: another leading agent wants it to be a seller's tax](/img/default/eat.png)
Jeremy Leaf, the London estate agent and former RICS residential chairman, is the latest industry figure to call for the government...
06 March 2017
From: Breaking News
![What we learnt about the Government post-White Paper](/img/default/eat.png)
If you work in lettings, I’ll already have a pretty good idea on how you feel about the current Conservative Government. The...
11 February 2017
From: Features
![Is building homes in factories the solution to the housing crisis?](/img/default/eat.png)
The chronic shortage of housing supply in the UK relative to demand has been a national issue for decades. The Government...
11 February 2017
From: Features
![Here are all 29 key points in the Housing White Paper](/img/default/eat.png)
The government has set out 29 key points in its Housing White Paper. Introducing it in the Commons this afternoon, Communities Secretery Sajid...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![Housing White Paper - what to expect from today's release](/img/default/eat.png)
A series of leaks to national newspapers and a flurry of broadcast interviews by housing minister Gavin Barwell means we already know...
07 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![White Paper: poor new-build figures as emphasis shifts to renting](/img/default/eat.png)
There's bad news for the government in the form of house building targets on the eve of its long-awaited Housing White...
06 February 2017
From: Breaking News
![New homes: Sajid and Gavin must do better](/img/default/eat.png)
Now I’m not one to lose sleep over politicians, but it strikes me that Communities Secretary Sajid Javid and Housing Minister...
07 January 2017
From: Features
![It’s time to look North for lettings income](/img/default/eat.png)
If you provide a service, you expect to be paid for it. Sound fair? But with the forthcoming ban on tenant...